. Playa Book . Fold-out, sculptural book documenting aspects of the high desert area around Summer Lake, Oregon (wind, grass, birds, fire, soil, etc.), as well as the mark-making tools and processes used in the book’s construction. Primary construction & collection 16-27april2018 at Playa Artist Residency. . 1st section - five burnt grass drawings (rubbings of bunch grass charcoal stubble, the result of a controlled burn, in the Summer Lake Wildlife Refuge) . blue box - eight impromptu wind machine drawings & sketch of the machine that made them . 2nd section - nine laminated studio rags & one flattened, laminated coffee cup (that was used for ink) . red box - pages of sighted species lists (2), latlong/elev, construction dates, russian olive notes . green box - six grass drawings, five laminated grass stems (the dwg instruments), Japanese accordion-fold print book with grass dwgs throughout . 3rd section - two pages painted w/ playa mud, stamped w/ soil collection date and locale . wooden box - left side: painted panel; right side: attached hardware cloth fragment, collected on the playa site . russian olive tree prunings, wood blocks & found fragments as supporting legs and spacers . #sculpture #sculpturalbook #artistbook #foundobjects #boxes #binders #hardware #encredechine #acrylic #paint #treeprunings #winddrawing #grassdrawing #charcoalrubbing #controlledburn #studiorags #collecting #detritus #animallist #birdlist #highdesert #playasummerlake #playaartistresidency #summerlakewildlifearea #jamienewton #pnw #oregon